The Santa Cruz Mountains are the San Francisco Bay Area's urban wilderness. Naturalists at Large offers programs at several sites surrounding Santa Cruz and Monterey. Day options near Santa Cruz also include sea kayaking at Elkhorn Slough or Monterrey Bay and visits to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
On Highway 1 just south of Pescadero, this farm is a great location to explore with your class. From composting to seed sowing, and weed management to milking goats, your students will learn what living off the land is all about.
This area provides endless opportunities for outdoor science, hiking, and challenge course activities. Located just south of Pescadero, Camp Skylark spans 280 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains above the beautiful California coast.
Located in the coastal mountains above Santa Cruz, Mount Cross is a beautiful site perfect for group building and environmental education programs.
Boulder Creek Scout Reservation BCSR covers over 300 acres and borders Bear Creek where salmon and steelhead spawn. The area also features artifacts from its history of mining and logging.
Koinonia Conference GroundsThe secluded mountains above Watsonville make a perfect setting for taking some time for group building and reflection.
Naturalists at Large is a leading outdoor and environmental education group in California. Since 1985, we have provided outdoor education programs for tens of thousands of students from over two hundred schools, offering custom client designed trips, flexible dates and locations, commitment to safety and comfort in the outdoors, the wonder of nature and the importance of outdoor and experiential education.
